DIRECTIONS:1. Take your own portrait photo, rendered into a b/w value shot. Mrs. McLenehan will use Photoshop for this step.
2. Transfer the value outlines of your portrait to watercolor paper using graphite transfer ( shade the back of the pic, place
it on the watercolor paper and use a fine tip pen or hard pencil to draw the outline shapes. The pencil will transfer to the
watercolor paper).
3. Number the values on the original, lightest is 1, down to how many values you have.
4. Choose one color of paint. You will be adding white to make different values (tints) of that color.
5. Start painting darkest (full value) to lightest tint.
6. Make sure there is no white paper showing on your portrait.
7. Pick a complementary color (opposite on the wheel) for your background color.
Samples:
ALTERNATE INSTRUCTIONS Pop Art Portrait Instructions
Choose a Celebrity. Find a clear headshot picture at least
300 x 300 px. The bigger, the better. Save the picture to your desktop.
Open Photoshop. Go “File-Open”. Click on your saved picture
To open it in photoshop.
If your picture is too small to work with, enlarge it by….
Go “Image-Image Size. In the document size, change the height And width to 110 and change to percent from cm using the dropdown arrow. Repeat as necessary to get a workable size picture.
Select the crop tool on the left side. Enter 8in for width and 10in for height. Draw around the head with the tool. Press enter. Now you should have just the head in a portrait shaped square.
Go “Filter- Artistic- Cutout”. Set the Number of Levels to 5. Press enter. Now you have a portrait in 5 values of color.
In the next step, you draw the grid. First show the rulers by going “View- Rulers” Your picture’s top left corner will line up with 0 going across and 0 going down. Divide the total number covered across the top so you will end up with fourequal sized stripsdown. Do the same with the side ruler so you have five equal strips across. This will give you squares on your picture.
Go “File- Print” to get your paper copy. NOTE: if the picture doesn’t show 8 x 10 inches, cancel print and go back to crop your picture to 8in width and 10in height one more time. This should print out full size now.
Take a piece of water color paper 12 x 15 inches and divide it into a grid of 3 inch squares with sharp pencil. NOTE: make the gridlines very light as they will be erased later. You will have the same number of squares as is on your printed picture.
NOTE: You may need to split some of the squares to smaller measure in the face area if there is a lot of detail. Split the same squares on both the picture and the watercolor paper.
Now you are ready to draw each square from your picture to the matching square on the watercolor paper.
When all squares are drawn, erase the gridlines.
Now you will mark on the picture the numbers 1,2,3,4,5 to match the shapes from lightest (1) to darkest (5). This gives you a paint-by-number system.
Choose one of the following acrylic paint styles for your final stage. A) Values of grey from pale (1) to dark (5), B) Monochromatic of one color tinted with white from pale (1)to full color (5), C) Five different colors that range in value from 1 to five. Marking Scheme for level of difficulty- greys give you adequate (6.5), monochromatic gives you very good (7.5), five-color gives you superior (8.5).
MARKING SCHEME- Grid Drawing /20 Solid Color, Careful Painting /20 Level of Difficulty /10 TOTAL ---------- 50 marks
Student Acrylic Value Portraits
DIRECTIONS:1. Take your own portrait photo, rendered into a b/w value shot. Mrs. McLenehan will use Photoshop for this step.
2. Transfer the value outlines of your portrait to watercolor paper using graphite transfer ( shade the back of the pic, placeit on the watercolor paper and use a fine tip pen or hard pencil to draw the outline shapes. The pencil will transfer to the
watercolor paper).
3. Number the values on the original, lightest is 1, down to how many values you have.
4. Choose one color of paint. You will be adding white to make different values (tints) of that color.
5. Start painting darkest (full value) to lightest tint.
6. Make sure there is no white paper showing on your portrait.
7. Pick a complementary color (opposite on the wheel) for your background color.
Samples:
Pop Art Portrait Instructions
- Choose a Celebrity. Find a clear headshot picture at least
300 x 300 px. The bigger, the better. Save the picture to your desktop.- Open Photoshop. Go “File-Open”. Click on your saved picture
To open it in photoshop.- If your picture is too small to work with, enlarge it by….
Go “Image-Image Size. In the document size, change the heightAnd width to 110 and change to percent from cm using the dropdown arrow. Repeat as necessary to get a workable size picture.
MARKING SCHEME- Grid Drawing /20
Solid Color, Careful Painting /20
Level of Difficulty /10
TOTAL ---------- 50 marks
EXAMPLE Using Diana Ross